CREATIVE WRITING: GOTHIC LOVE
This article is a compilation of two pieces of writing made by tenth graders on a creative writing workshop on english class, inspired by the song "The Haunting" by Kamelot, in the style of gothic writing.
by: Maria José Martínez 10B
Tears on the ground
Grief came to life
You teared my heart down
As hurtful as a knife
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Nothing is the same
Your touch lingers again
Who is the one to blame?
I could not bear the pain
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We both were aware
Obstacles stranded in our way
Yet I hoped you could stay
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How am I to thrive
If I don´t have you by my side
I´ll guess I´ll forget
This love as dim as a cigarette
by: Danna Carrero 10A
What is love supposed to be?
How can a simple word change a person’s life?
Do we have the correct meaning in our minds?
Or is it just an ideal that society has imposed?
This feeling is the one that can begin with a simple smile, get bigger with a kiss and end with a tear. Anyone can simply fall in love, but falling out of it is simply disgusting, so, is it always that awful?
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I once promised myself I wouldn´t cry, I once promised myself I would never let you go; but now is the time, I can´t forget you, I´m thinking about your eyes, your laugh, your lighting smile, your kisses. I´m not saying I think of you every time, but I don´t deny that every time my mind imagines, it always finds a way to get back to you.
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Why is this happening to me? Why can´t love be like a fairytale? It is hard to love, but it isn´t impossible, now I realize I can´t be with you anymore. I have suffered enough, I will finally let you go.
TRANSCRIPT, THE LANGUAGE OF THE FUTURE
Transcript: "a form of something as rendered from one alphabet or language into another". Ninth graders wrote their own articles in transcript, the language of their own utopian future world.
by: Laura Buitrago, Mariana Bolivar, Mariana Cardenas 9A
Compact of Intelligentia Dirigatur a Deo.
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In the name of God, Amen. "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” ´John 14-16.
After the massive earthquake and solar storm in 2059, the earth as we knew it was destroyed. Only North America, North Africa and Russia survived. Since that day most of the people stopped believing in God, and in consequence us, who were still Christians have been persecuted by the rest of the population. This is why we’re writing this compact, because we are moving to a new place where we can live free, and away from any kind of African or American persecutors.
Today, March 24 of 2060, we will create our new government and organized society. This new civilization is named Intelligentia Dirigatur a Deo. As soon as we land in Russia, laws will start working for everyone that is a board in this boat.
The Ten Commandments are the base of our new law and anyone who violates any of them will be sent back to North America or North Africa.
As we have learned, people have many skills so we have decided to divide the citizens into seven special abilities that are, musical–rhythmic, visual-spatial, verbal-linguistic, logical–mathematical, bodily–kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalistic. Then, from each group, the best will be chosen to represent this intelligence at the government. This is how the state works. There will be an aristocracy, because the best from each ability will be chosen to rule but always applying justice. At the same time this government will be called Intelligentia, the word comes from Italian and it means “a group of intelligent and well-educated people who guide or try to guide the political, artistic, or social development of their society”. In addition, we will construct a huge barrier to isolate any kind of invasion or persecutors from Australia or North Africa.
In conclusion we will create a new free society, where everyone who wants to live in it, simply has to follow the law.
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Metalanguage Compact
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by: Juliana Súarez, Sofia Silva, Mariana Sanchez
by: Juliana Sofia Suárez, Sofia Silva, Mariana Sanchez
